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    favourite old school chocalate bars

    have to be in the 10 to 15p bracket
    these were always
    within budget treats in my day


    1 Macaroons (at ten p they couldnt be beat on price - and seemed immune to inflation that ruined many classics, but they left a lot of grainy **** in your mouth)

    2 Kalipsos (really tough toffee covered in chocolate- wrecked your teeth again only 10 pence - lasted for ages though as you needed hours to eat the feckers)

    3. Smileys - orangey chocalate chew- again only 10p , the day they stated charging 12p was the day the music died maaan) can anyone remember the chocolate version? without the orangey lark?




    pankys - wafer choc bars - cheap as fu.ck
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    I found Desperate Dan bars and Wham bars in the Spar in Clonskeagh recently, hadn't had one in years!
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    Smile wham

    wham were the pink chewy things with the sparkley dust?

    thought they took it off the market after those reneck kids went blind a few years back

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    Chomps!!!

    I remember now it was called a Chomp
    cadburys made it
    and at 10p it
    was the only semi decent bar you could afford as a kid

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    Chocolate Mice

    Probably dont qualify but they were like Kalipsos
    but in the shape of a mouse (not computer one!)
    and only cost 2p or 5p in the good old days.
    Wrecked your jaws and teeth though!

    How much were Stinger Bars?

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    off top (in an off topic thread....)

    but will we ever see a return of
    coolpops or mr Freeze's????

    i seem to recall mr freeze had a special one off one with two gobstopper chewing gums inside it but that could have been wierd dream

    member those red devils the hard as fu.k little yokes u got in packets of 2

    the chemicals in thse yokes must a been something unreal

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    Roy of the Rovers Bars!

    Refresher Bars!

    Desperate Dan Bars!

    All certain to leave you toothless by 20!
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    Mr. Freeze

    I think you can still get Mr Freeze, although they might be
    under a different name.

    Sparkler ice pops for 10p were the kings of cheapness, along
    with those cans of Smack Cola, Lemonade and Orange

    Or those crappy little bottles of Score Cola, then copied by
    Homestead - put you high as a kite

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    was it just my newsagents?

    or did they all do those self made "10 penny mix bags"
    you'd get a black jack, a fruit salad, a coca cola bottle and one covered in sugar, a flog (member flogs???), possibly some sort of soother in gumy form, a gummy bear, and a false teeth yoke that u could eat

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    Lucky Bags

    Shop beside me sold those 10p Lucky Bags.

    You'd get a black jack type sweet, a packet of those
    sherbetty type sweets, a whistle/Kazoo and usually a
    sitcker with Speedy Gonzales in a Celtic or Rangers top!

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    you were ripped off!

    sounds like a scam.


    on a nother note

    i could never see the point of kinder suprises
    as there was feck all eatin in them
    they were expensive an the suprise was always crap

    blue was my favourite flavour in mr freezes

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    Re: you were ripped off!

    Originally posted by wws
    i could never see the point of kinder suprises
    as there was feck all eatin in them
    they were expensive an the suprise was always crap
    And the chocolate was $hite as well!
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    kinder

    ... I was surprised anyone bought them

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    oasis

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    no not the band but the cool pop type thing

    it broke the coolpop trend in narrow stick packaging by just being a lump of coloured ice in a square plastic pack, usually in green flavour i reckon 15p

    u couldnt slush it up either like a mr freeze as it was literally a hard block of ice

    the cheapest drink was a plastic yoke of non fizzy cola with a foil top on it like it was a yoghurt or something, name escapes me, man it was cheap
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    Wham, Macaroon, Refresher/Stinger, Chomp, Curly Wurly and, of course, the Roy of the Rovers bar.
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    Roy of the Rovers bars! Pineapple - my favourite!

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    Refresher bars(blue ones), delicious

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